We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTCourage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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Peace, like charity, begins at home.
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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
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The real safeguard of democracy is education.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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